Alfredo De Stefano

In my photographic work of the last few years, I have been traveling to the largest and most extreme deserts of the planet to intervene the landscape, either setting scenes or scenarios with a variety of elements, both natural and manipulated. In this way, in the middle of the sometimes-oppressive vastness of the desert, I build and photograph intimate spaces, some of which are metaphors of the painful desertification of the planet caused by man, and others function as ironic allusions to our relationship with the desert. The action I perform deals with reintegration, an act of reflection on what the desert has lost, but also a way of restoring it, from a personal intervention, its ravaged memory. Obviously, in the desert this intervention is an ephemeral act, but transcendent in the photographic memory that has managed to materialize a desire